Etymology

barcoding

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Today it means: The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product Full definition →

English barcode ← Middle English code ← Old French code
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The story

  1. Vulgar Latin*barra
  2. Old Frenchbarre
  3. Middle Englishbarre
  4. Englishbar
  5. Latincaudex
  6. Latincōdex
  7. Old Frenchcode
  8. Middle Englishcode
  9. Englishcode
  10. Englishbarcode
  11. English todaybarcoding

From barcode + -ing.

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